Yeah, But im having the P5E Deluxe motherboard, It's gonna be pretty expensive upgrade, Motherboard, CPU, GPU.
Currently im useing a Intel E8500 3.16Ghz duo.
But I don't think it will be able to handly the 5870, Mabye one of the 4800cards if im overclocking it ..

It might work... But how do you think it will work?
I just though it would need something like a I7 core or so.
I rather prepare my system for the card Don't want to get the card and get lots of bottlenecks because of that I should have upgraded the CPU before the grapich card..
But the card is yet pretty new, There might be others thats gonna try this with a CPU around the same as my current.

Your current setup will work fine with a 5870 even at stock. Even if you get a slight bottleneck due to the CPU (which I highly doubt), you can easily overclock a E8500. Core i7's are nice powerful chips, but absolutely not needed for gaming.

Im not sure if theres even a difference, But XFX Radeon 5870, Im just a fan of XFX for some reason mostly of theyre design, However, How sure about that are you? and XFX/standart 5870, Any difference or am im paying extra for the titel?

all 5870s are the same at the moment, but sapphire is working on their vapor model i think, så that will have better cooling

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Sounds like a plan..! However as im not a big overclocker, I think standart cooling would do just fine.
I got 3870 atm, But im having some problem with my games, it's very stable around 65-70C, stock cooling.

Im not sure if theres even a difference, But XFX Radeon 5870, Im just a fan of XFX for some reason mostly of theyre design, However, How sure about that are you? and XFX/standart 5870, Any difference or am im paying extra for the titel?

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XFX has a good warranty. All the refference 5870's are exactly the same. Yeah, you are paying for the brand name and the warranty.

The e8500 will handle it just fine, I can run an SLI gtx 260 setup on mine @4.0 without any noticeable difference from the same setup with a Q9650 @3.85 - And I have the additional overhead of a dual card setup.

Just OC and you will be golden. CPU power is massively over-rated these days.

The e8500 will handle it just fine, I can run an SLI gtx 260 setup on mine @4.0 without any noticeable difference from the same setup with a Q9650 @3.85 - And I have the additional overhead of a dual card setup.

Just OC and you will be golden. CPU power is massively over-rated these days.

Yeah no I had the same dilemma as you a few months ago. Upgraded to a quad Q9650 thinking that the 260's (theyre clocked at 810 core and 1620 shaders for 24/7 use) were being bottlenecked by the CPU. No such thing.

There actually was a decrease in some games due to the lower clockspeed of the quad (the MB doesnt liek to OC quads). :/

Totally not what I expected. Those e8500 are beasts, and they game smooth thanks to 6mb cache lol. OC it past 4GHz if you can.